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[netCDF #DAH-931198]: Problem with basic make /check on mac with gnu compilers

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  • Subject: [netCDF #DAH-931198]: Problem with basic make /check on mac with gnu compilers
  • Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 22:40:24 -0600
Hi Lydia,

> For more than a week now, I've occupied myself with trying to install netcdf
> (version 4.1.1), and despite modifying flags and other 'details', I have yet
> to come up with a combination that will work on my mac.  Obviously I'm doing
> something wrong, but I just can't figure out what, and probably should have
> asked for help before now, though I wanted to exhaust all options before
> doing so.  I've not had much experience installing libraries such as these
> in general, though, so my lack of experience is probably to blame.
> 
> I've followed all the instructions from your website as best as I can tell,
> including suggestions in the troubleshooting to disable netcdf-4 and disable
> c++ and fortran options, leaving only the basic c options, and still run
> into trouble.
> 
> Compile and make run fine, but make check does not.  I get lots of errors
> that look like 'ld warning: can't find atom for N_GSYM stabs ' etc, and lots
> of 'Undefined symbol: _nf_"etc (filenames in the last example mostly start
> with _nf_).

Those warnings indicate it is still trying to build the Fortran APIs,
as those all begin with nf_ or nf90_.

> I've attached the configure, make and make check outputs.
> 
> Thanks very much for any help you can offer,

I think you are using the gcc that comes with MacOS X, but a gfortran
installed in /usr/local/bin/gfortran that's not compatible with it.
On MacOS X, I've always had to use the same version gcc as gfortran,
and then things seem to work fine.

For example, I built netcdf-4.1.1 on MacOS X 10.6.3 using the gcc and
gfortran versions 4.4.1 from the gcc-leopard-intel-bin.tar.gz (Intel
Mac) link on http://hpc.sourceforge.net/, but you could probably also
use the 4.5 versions, from the gcc-snwleo-intel-bin.tar.gz (Snow
Leopard) link on the same web site.  These are binary distributions, so 
installation is quick and easy installing matching gcc/gfortran in 
/usr/local/bin according to the instructions on that site:

  ... Download my binaries, and cd to the download folder. Then gunzip
  gcc-bin.tar.gz (if your browser didn't do so already) and sudo tar
  -xvf gcc-bin.tar -C /. It installs everything in /usr/local. You
  invoke F95 by typing gfortran. You will also need to have Apple's
  Developer Tools installed. ...

and setting my PATH to include /usr/local/bin fist, so those gcc and
gfortran versions were found by the configure script.  Then everything 
just worked when I invoked

  ./configure --prefix=<whatever>
  make check
  make install

including the Fortran and C++ interfaces.

--Russ

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: DAH-931198
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed